The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-06
MIRACLES OF MENTAL POWER.
Organization in This City OF Glass of Chris
tian Science Healers


tian Science Healers.
Mind healing. or Christian science healing, as
its advocates prefer to hear it called has attract
ed little attention in Indianapolis until
within three or four weeks. though in other
cities West, as we'll as East it has attracted much
notice and gathered many adherents. A short
time ago DR.. S. J. Sawyer, of Milwaukee, came
here and organized a class for teaching this
mental science" but being called home, has
left Mrs knight in charge, and she is organizing
another class The first class contained num-
Der of ladies we'll known in upper society circles
TIE person who claims to have discovered this
new medical system is a Massachusetts, woman.
Mary Baker G. Eddy. She denominated her
discovery made in 1866, ''Metaphy steal Healing
afterward adopting the name Of christian
Science" She claims to have been led up to
the discovery through homeopathy, having been
a practicing physician of that school. After
giving patients highly attenuated remedies she,
AS experiment, administered bread pills. and
as they continued to improve she withheld the
bread pills and gave nothing. When these were
withheld they grew worse from which she re-
solved that it was the mind that determined the
cure and proceeded to build up her science.
1--WE treat" said Mrs. Knight, entirely
through the system that mind governs and rules
and the treatment is mental healing entirely.
Ours is the Eddy school. There is another
school in Chicago that practices mesmerism
while entirely disclaim anything of that
kind. Our system is based entirely upon
understanding of what Christ meant in His
teachings and by the cures that he performed. :"
"Do you believe inquired the reporter that
your system can cure palsy. blindness and do
other miraculous cures that Christ didF'
Il believe that if one is far enough and firm
enough in this belief that he might cure all of
those diseases. and there are many instances Of
Mrs. Eddy's cure of cases of that sort"
us it necessary for the person receiving this
mind treatment to be a believer in it!'
SIT is not necessary to be a believer in it. but
one should not be arrayed against it. You re-
member that those who were cured by Christ
wanted to be cured and you know that 1t is a
large factor in the way of getting cured that
one should be willing to be cured. DR.. SAWYER
treated patient here just one week, a woman
who was condemned to go to the hospital and
who came here simply because she knew not
what else to do A week later she came and an
nounced herself cured all the malignant symp-
toms of the case having passed away. Her
affection was a tumor."
"Will you explain how this healing is done!'
entirely by mind thought. and there is no
special method. We will suppose you came to
me TO be treated"
Very we'll; suppose l have lost an arm. My
left arm is gone. and want another"
1--WE don't claim to do surgery in mental sci
ence."
Liver complaint was suggested as fair all
ment for metaphy steal medicine.
"Wel suppose you come to me for treatment.
We base our claim on the non Intelligence of
matter-that there is 10 life, substance intel
| igence-and we take you up in mind and
| treat you on that basis We say that liver
| complaint only exists in your mind. The dis
| ease is entirely mental and the treatment is en-
| tirely mental We would not talk your liver
| complaint to you audibly. would not say you
| have not the liver complaint. but would men
| tally array myself against the idea of your hav
| iEg it. for the reason that we disbeieve in any
| thing but mind. We continue the treatment
| on that basis. OF course, the whole grand work
| of the system is that God is everything and
| created everything, and evil has existence in
| His thought or imagination; that we are His
reflection and should be whole in body,
, as well as in mind. We believe that
| God is supreme, the only life substance and in
| telligence of the universe of man; that neithe,
| the whole of God nor the whole of man can be
| discerned by the human senses Hence the per
| sonallty of God aud man are unknown and left
to human conjecture We believe in divine
| principle and not personal God that Christ
| was that divine principle made manifest to the
flesh so that mortals could understand it. He
| is what the Scriptures declare him to be-ife
| truth and love. We claim that spirit is the oniy
| substance-'the substance of things hoped for
the evidence of things not SEEM the Script
| ures say. We treat all classes of disease. 1t il
| not faith cure at all. 1t depends upon the IN
derstanding-the supreme sense. We think tina
if Christian scientist should fail to perform
cure, it in no wise Injuries the law. We hav,
never pretended TO claim that all people ar,
| cured by Christian science, but do claim
| that Christian science has cured as great Is mum
Der in proportion to the number treated as ma
terra medica. OF course we believe in the powe
of it. and are forced to believe in the power of it
| The textbooks in teaching so-called Christian
science only two-the Bible and Mrs Eddy
book